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c/theonion · by ZeroCool@vger.social · 2y

Ticketmaster Hacker Demands $500K Ransom (Plus $300K Ransom Processing Fee, $220K Ransom Handling Fee)

https://theshovel.com.au/2024/05/30/ticketmaster-hacker-demands-500k-ransom-plus-300k-processing-fee/

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30 Comments

0110010001100010@lemmy.world · 132 pts · 2y (1 reply)

“The cost for the ransom is $500,000. Your total ransom amount will be calculated on the next page. Would you like to upgrade to a special souvenir, limited-edition ransom for an extra $40 million?” the note read.

The group also offered Ticketmaster the opportunity to upgrade their ransom to ‘Refundable’ for just an extra $12 million, which would allow the company to request a refund and then have it later denied.

Bwahahahaha. Get fucked Ticketmaster.

criticon@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 2y

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magnetosphere@fedia.io · 69 pts · 2y (3 replies)

If this story was real, I’d root for the hacker

BenGFHC@kbin.social · 12 pts · 2y (2 replies)

I think they were actually hacked weren't they?

magnetosphere@fedia.io · 7 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I don’t know. This particular story is made up, though.

Maven@lemmy.zip · 23 pts · 2y

Yes, they were actually hacked. The ransom mentioned here is fake.

dogsnest@lemmy.world · 58 pts · 2y

SORRY!! SOLD OUT!!

Tomorrow the resale price is $1.4 Million....

ssj2marx@lemmy.ml · 47 pts · 2y (1 reply)
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FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y

My exact thought process lol

aeharding@vger.social · 39 pts · 2y

Hahahah

the onion

😢

spriteblood@kbin.social · 38 pts · 2y (8 replies)

I'm 100% not okay with stealing and ransoming people's personal information, but this makes me want to be 99% not okay with it.

dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de · 15 pts · 2y (6 replies)

I am 100% ok with ransoming companies with poor security.

We balance each other out. I’ll never feel sorry for a corporation and ticket master are one of the worst.

metaStatic@kbin.social · 7 pts · 2y (3 replies)

it's not the company that suffers though, everyone already has their personal data ...

dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 2y (2 replies)

That’s inevitable at this point anyway. If you’re that concerned then change what you can every time there is a breach.

Mac@mander.xyz · 5 pts · 2y (1 reply)

your comment implies we already aren't doing that.

do not project your apathy toward your own privacy onto the rest of us.

dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de · -1 pts · 2y

I change all the time.

I am apathetic towards a lot of things, but my privacy isn’t one.

Maeve@kbin.social · 4 pts · 2y

You know this affected a bunch of individual humans, many of whom skipped meals and other things, to buy an overpriced ticket for a moment of brightness in a life of drudgery?

Miaou@jlai.lu · 2 pts · 2y

Fuck hospitals and end users then? The party losing the most here is certainly not ticketmaster

veroxii@aussie.zone · 10 pts · 2y

Yeah the hackers can get fucked. But Ticketmaster can go get fucked more.

iAvicenna@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 2y

ransom handling fee hahah how nice would it be were it true

TachyonTele@lemm.ee · 12 pts · 2y

Damn. I was really hoping this was real.

octopus_ink@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 2y (2 replies)

There's maybe three companies that I have no sympathy for in a case like this. Ticketmaster is one of them.

Edit: OMG I sincerely ate the onion.

veroxii@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 2y

There was a real hack. The onion is just making a joke about it.

bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 0 pts · 2y

Have sympathy for the people who had their data stolen

stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub · 6 pts · 2y (5 replies)

As much as I dislike Ticketmaster and their practices, these data breaches affect real people for the rest of their lives.

Not a good situation and Ticketmaster needs to be held 100% accountable.

Sabata11792@kbin.social · 6 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Best you can realistically hope for is a check for $7.31 and free credit reports for a year till it happens again.

Zoot@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Or the ranmsomers get enough money to make it no longer a viable business model...

Want to screw customers with hidden fees? Hackers will screw Ticketmaster with hidden ransoms

Sabata11792@kbin.social · 2 pts · 2y

Some one needs to send the guy that did the hack this article.

nokturne213@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

c\whooosh

stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub · 7 pts · 2y

Fully aware of the sub I’m in, this did still happen though and I was referring to the comments

Woooosh yourself lol

Maeve@kbin.social · 1 pts · 2y

Thanks for my daily giggle, op! Apples cost more than a laugh, both are good medicine.